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i f. ,~. t AND ALTONA id:PERS. CowsTAtzTrstoPLE, DEC. 10 . .--eSo great a ~want of the ,neCessalies of life is said to Prevail in the island Of Corfu, that it is much to be feared the garrison and inhabiOhis will b e fo rce d' to su rre n d er . The Russian Officer who arrived here lately from Jassy is said.tt; have brought a letter to the Turkish Government from the Russian derieral Prosorowsky, lie returned on the 6th by Cevalla and Sophia. ' The General's letter seems to have contained-pro posals for peace; for immediately after the Officer's departure, the Porte appointed Plenipotentiaries, viz. Schalib Effendi and a son or Murat Mole, one'ninch • skilled in the mussulman lawt. They are to treat on the frontiers, and will, it is said, set out on the inst.—Aeieu Zeitang. The Ministers designed for the . Congress of Peace with Russia set out to-morrow, or the day alter, es corted by a body of troops, as the roads by Sophia to Bucharest are not safe. The English Minister, Adair, stal remains on • bciard his Frigate in the Dardanelles. At last intelligence has 'been received of those . :Janissaries who were sent to the village of the Chat), of th'e Tartar Chan to seize the Captain Pacha and. aidri P.icha . The number of these Janissaries hay ing increa4ed to more than 10,000 men, on their Way . nlade ao'attack on the entrenchments, but were beaten off. They lost two of their field-pieces, and stitiered grelrt loss in killed and wo u n d e d. W e now hear that the Captain Pacha, Cadre Pacha, and the Chan of the Tartars art; going to Ruitschuk. • ' No &pat nevi remains that Mustapba Bairactar last his lite in the late revolution.- , -Correspondent, • COPENHAGErd, Ai7 . 7.-r--Setne days bad; upwards of e. t English prisoners of war . from .the Crescent Frigate paiscd through liete.tor Elsineur to be sent to Swecten'; among them are five naval and One ma rine Officer. As the Sound is now full of floating • tee, their passage will be attended with, difficulties. For thee - seVeral days We have had a severe frost,' which is become smarter by an .eniterly wind.— Front the steeples We secs convoy of from -sixteen . to twewy, Ships, which left the Baltic tun late, surrounded by ice. One Ship of the Line, one frigate, and three brigs, are said to be among tlietn. The 'euirent which at one time pushes, by the help* of the wind,' the ice together, atranother separates . it, will soon decide their fate. The English ships of war which were stationed betore Helsingburgh, sailed just in time; had they remained but a few dap loriver, they would b ase b een bl oc k e d i n b y the ice which has settled there. On the sth 'a large merchantman was driven oft' Malmoe, by the ice, • beyond Dragoc, where she was obliged to remain ; but her. distanCe from land was too great for our batteries to cannonade her with eff:e6l, as was prov ed upon trying. Sue set up tall sails to endeavour to disengage herself, and in this she succeeded. -e- -She was observed to" hoist Arneric:an colours, but lowered th,An again. At Elsinettr it is rutiroured that three pi ivateess•returning from Bbrnboltn o k i k a coNvoy of between 111,irteen and tuurieen shios iii the Baltic, bet this requires eiattirmation. One of our privateers returning fit* Bornholm was .chaced by two of the 'enemy's frizat, h . , but escaped. She is said to hat's several prisoners of war On board. COVENHA;EN, DeC. ;11.-1 , --Accorcling to private BCCOLiIitS tri.nt Sweden, sortie syrtiptoms oh discontent had appeared among the Nobles. The. Napo/eon privateer (Danish). has captured a Swedish vessel llouud from StOckholni to Mahout: ith regimentals for the I roops.—Correspondent, HANAII, JAL 17.—A great number of the troops'. of General Oedetiot's corps base been sent into the country of Fulda. It is said, two more divisions 'will be united with the corps of the said General, so that it will be ao,u - oo men strong, and be com m'and„ed by General Oudenot. A corps •of French hussars, who passed through Frankfort, marched on the 16th to Mentz, thence again to Frankfort.— Correspondent. AUGSBUIIGH; Jaw. fo.—The exchange of Cou riers between Vienna to Paris, through this place, is 'very brisk now. 'French Courie r s a l so o f ten pass to and from Constantinople. .Last week two Coe liers for. Count Rotuansow in Paris passed thiough this city. • The King of ilavaiia will.nominate Generals De -toy and .Wrede Marshall of the Empiist. BAtqts or THE ELBE, JAN. 27.—An the- mails . 'Still remain due; a greater dearth of news was no quer kuown-tlian for this last fortnight. The, French' iitilletins from Spain 'fill all the public Papers on the , Centinent. Rumours even:are rare, and the exchange of the lianse-Towns, once so fertile in them, hardly pro •ducea one at present. The news of the continuance of the Embargo in America has caused a great sensation among Mere -chants in the North of Germany, as well as in land; where Colonial produce begins to be scarce.--• Some private. letters fro th Austria state, that the Archduke Charlei will, under certain, efreunistances, . snake a journey to Berlin, and sorne persons seem to . believe this report. • AtiosedaGn, Dec, 12.—0 n. the sth of Decetn 7 her an English Frigate, of 44 'guns and 265 men, loiniderecl Off Londstrup, 'at ten o'clock at night.— at. ist o be regretted that Only five Officers wick 66 seamen could be saved..-Ncither ship' not- guns can be Wed- every exertion was. made to save the Cr‘elV..`.'Correspondent: !Ica, DEC. 24.-Our Monarch has sent to their Majesties the King and' Queen of . Prthdia, an ex tremely hue and valuable present of sable furs for their journey, to St. Potersburgh. Our Emperor goes to meet their Prussian Majesties to the'diNtance of 40 wersts, The approachipg nuptials of the Grand Duchess CATHARINE with Prince GEOROZ of Holstein Olden.i. hurgh„Governor-General of Revel, was to take place. on the Girth-day of his imperial Majesty, the ;s3d inst. t St. Petersburgh. PRusats~ Din. 29.-00. the 27th inst. at seven o'clock in the morning, the King and Queen set out on their- visit to the Emperor of Russia at Sr. Peters burgh. Prim e wi teL ihm (the King's brother) and Prince AnOusios are also gone there. the retinue of their Majesties is not numerous. Since the •J 6th ins t. thw persons appoluterl by the 1,1. - nperottlymeet them have been waiting at Polaniin., Among them if Prince DOLGORUCKY who ac companies them to •;•' ~ • • ,t St. Petersburgh. He i s also charged with present, ing them the Valuable furs. At every post, horset are kept in readiness, as are-the piquet§ of Coqsacks, who are to escort them. Ten nights', quarters are prepared for them on the road, but it is supposed their Majesties will terminate their journey in eight days, and reach Petersburgh on the 4th January. BERLIN, JAN..3.—The worthy and meritorious : General Von SCHARNskoksr accompanies their Ma.' jesties to St. Petersburg!). A number of French horses have passed,through this city as a, present from' the EmPeror NAPOLEON to the Emperor ALEXANDRE. -As a change of Government is about to take place. here, tield' Marshal Von MOLLENDORFF is about selling his estate at Lichtenberg, near Berlin, with all, the furniture and orangery, by valuation. BANKS OF THU MAIN, D,ric,26.—At the regriest of the Duke of NASSAU a meeting h:is been called of the senior Sovereign Prince&of the second class, of the Confederation of ihe Rhine, at Frankfort.. The subject of these conferences is the furnishing of the contingent of those Prim:Ts for the war in Spain. VIENNA, SAN; I 1 LIU'S Court Gazer ze con tains the following intelligenCe from Turkey: " According to the most authentic ad vices from Con'- stantinoplc, tranquillity remained undisturbed. The Grand Seignior MACIIMED had granted 16 the Janis saries all their further demands. The 'road to .11u mclia is also perlealy safe, and the most valuable caravans of merchandize pass and repass quite on, Molested: A Halli Sheriif, or mandate of the Grand Seignior,' etripowered the -new Grand Vizier ZIATA MEPItiLSCH . PACHA, to the most indefatigably ac tive continuance of the warlike preparatiOils by land and sea. • • • " On the Bth December, public notice was given at Constantinople of the formal opening of a Con gress for Peace with Russia at Bucharest, alai that the Reis •Etfendi and Ariti Effendi are ,detained to be the Negotiators. The latthr has hitherto COW. 4 u cted the neg:ilizaions at the Dardanelles with the British, Minister Mr. ' The brother of Prided Deuistrasky is to he interpreter on the occasion, NAPLES, J. natural, phenomenon has been itnessed here; unexampled in th..; Records of our City front the 20th to the 24th of December, it rained incessantly and very violently, with heavy storms from the South-west : in the evening, the wind changed to the North-west, and on the 25th and Q.6th, ii prodigious quantity of snow fell, which' now .lies in the City, two feet deep .and on the • neighbobring mountains, from three to four feet deeLL lleaumerifirthermometer t , :is six and seven degrees below the freezing point, (17 and 15 of Fahrenheit.) VENICE, JAN ! 8. - -• The mulberry trees in Upper Italy have suffered mach by the cold, and most of the young branches are frozen. This mn.t have a considerable :effeel on the price of raw silk. ST; PETERSBUiGII, JAN. 6.-The cold here is so extreme that the thermorne* has sunk to.24.de grees ,below the freezing point.-- t 2 degrees of . I .Fahrenheit.) RIGA, DEC. 31....- r A 1111 1 10111* 110 00011 circulated that a speedy peace is about to be concluded be tween Russia and Sweden. ITi9,Y, Dec. 3.---In the Neapolitan territories the .most active preparations are making. for the or ganization of the Matine, which at first cc ill consist principally . .of '(.gun-boats. A grelt body of troops are marching to attempt to land in Sicily. in the beginning of January the King of Naples 1,00 go to Reggio. - - Ilimnotion, Dec. 7.—According to letters from, Copenhagen, it Appears that those French Custom 4 house4ws which prevented the exportation•of Da. niab,'manuf:naiired goods into Germany are modified, and under certain regulations, do away all difficul ties, and' that the exportation will soon be .entirely free. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 14.--The house of- the great cloth Manufacturer, PETER VREDE, formerly a member of the Mtraviau Directory,, has declared itself insolvent. Tl,e number of Physicians for the poor in thiS City has been augmented from four to twelve. The number of our poor increases every day many ne cessaries, such as salt, soap, and pot-ashes, as ,well as the ColOnial •products, daily rise higher. The prohibition of pavigation continues 'to last "with greeter severity than ever.—(Correspondynt.) VIENNA, DEC. 144—0 n the t tth a Courier ar , rived here, who set out from Constantinople on ,the 20th of November, and who sass at. that period iraiiquillity' was not restored. The Fleet had de clared far BAIRACTAft, and hod fired upon the Se raglio.' It is thought this last revolution will not be ea'sily quelled, because it is thought that the friends ,of IIAittAcTAR, . who- are spread In great numbers th;oughout the limpte, wiil not coolly . } ~L? i bcp their friend s'iL - ificed a victim of this scene of terror. XI is net knowt) what has b.x.orne'.or the Gran4.s‘eignor ; • • , There tire many bOntradiaory,reports fespeOirtg the tate of this OrinCe at Conit:tillitio.ple. It appear certain that IVltikrArti,i IV. is ti0.r0n:, , , , r iu .exist ence, for after- the defeat of theSeyinenS gain/te r. Att, seeing that °the Janiss4riei werc ..x:alieg the walls of the Seraglio, caused him to be strangled.— Tie afterwards entered into his ',place, where he set tire to a quantity of powder, which he had.amassed, in case of 'necessity, to prevent himself froni falling into-the bands of -the Janissar.ies. VIENNA, Dec. Co s aton that had been drawn on the frontiers of Galllcia in the late war; has now been dissolved, and the troops returned to their former.. quarters. The rumours occ4sioned by • so natural a dislocation are wholly unfounded.— . Prince DOLGORUCKY, coining from Bucharest, has passed through this city, with ilispatches for PariS: 'Count METTERNICK . IS . already returned to his Embassy in Paris. Prince ScuwAaspitiutton. goes on the 27th instant; in the same capacity, to St. Petersburgh, • BANKS of TIIR ELBE, Dee. 9.---BERNADOTTR, the army7under.. his conimattd, calls bin-15cl( Cotilmaticler kosehief of the Army of the Hatiseatio 064, The. Kingdom Of Denmark now fvels the effects of 43 war With Great Britain, and its alliance with France. The D:tnish Bank notes lose upwards of Go per . cent. for ready cash. All the inhabitants of iiamblugh are now oblig,ed to pay sixteen pence a dav, to the tneanctt .far the keep of the French garrkon. All traFie has ceased, and the distress of the lower classes is pitst description. 'BAYONNE, J. B.—Gener4is Sr. Cfll • and DUtliiiiME have began their march frOM B3I;CC+, 10113 ; a, part of their troops are going to Valencia. They write from Madrid, that the greatest tran quility prevails in that City. Some Regiments of light• cavalry have tiorched in the direction of Cu enca, and divcrsed the fugitives who,had shown themselves sin that side. The corps of Maishal .Vic Ten, ,Duke of;BEL-, LUNG, has. begun its march, after , having 'been re- , viewed by Khig Josartt. it ,c64lSiSii of three di . visions of infantry, amounting to about 10,000 dun. . . J4tl. 9.4-7-It is asserted that the Duke; DEL laraN TAnn is at Cuenca; and prcpAring to march to Ma drid, and though there should he any : truth in this intdligence, his artily can only 'consist :01a small Spanish ' corps, which may casily,he prevented, by the manceuvres of the Duke of BF:441)&0, trout re tiring to Andalusia,' and unavoidahly he cut off ei ther by the troops near Madrid, which amount to :10,000 men; or by the French anniei . which tic-" copy Arragoo, and are marching truth eabilbnig. The report that CAST NOS ha, been murdered by his own soldiers appc•tri to pill credit. - . General I.)r. LA BOI;LIE succeeds 'provisionally with 'the Doke D'Alr RA NTES Conimaod the light corps %t hieh i 4 de , olllefor Portug!d. Smoral thousand eon,cript4 are lodged in the barracks on the ghicis of our ,town. ward. BA YON N JAN. .10.-.-To-day 60 Sp111;511 Staff Officers, who had ben d prispners, arrived here') among illvt'n alc,. several General:. 'l l O-morro‘v .6,000 men , ot the Aim) , of Reserve, Kell equipped and clothed, march for Spain. O the , 2‘l instant, the siege of Saragossa was regularly began. • Letters from Burgos mention that the whole left wing of the Spanish army had broken up from As torga and Benevente, for Portugal, in which king dom it must by this time have arrived. JAN. ' 1 t.—According to accounts from Madrid, .the Dt;ke D'INvANT4OO, who had advsnced to Cuerica, bad been obliged to retreat from-thence with considerable loss, The Garrison of Madrid consiits of 3,000 men.— (Correspundoce from Pio:di Papers.) We regret very Much that such a respeaable and independent Nobleman as Earl Gnosvalloa should have joined the ranks of Opposition, alter baying witnes.eil the ,inefficacy of 411 the Tahints when they were in . office; but however ..we may disagree with hirn in the general drift of his speech on Wed .,nesday last, we heartily concur with ttiitr in what be said respeaing the lamentable degimeracy of the Emperor of RosstA, and the false howl and folly of iMputing the calainities of Europe to the st 'gnat kin of commerce :—i s it, sa id hi s Lordship very iiroperly, to the stagnation .of maritime commerce that the overthrow of the Germanic Empire, the incorpora tidal of Italy, the hubjugmion of Switzerland, the overthrow' of the lOiepttildemee of Holland, the wit.' between Sweden and Russia,. the distraeted state Of the Ottoman Euripire, and tb . e atroeious attack upon, Spin; are to be attributed ? Is it, to these, or to the insatiable +ambition of every Government which has been in Lance since 114 commetat!ement eta bra ,fle volui ion ? Bat the Noble Lord might have Married on his arguinent by a peculiar aptilie,ition to the conduct of Biwa:4)33e, wlio.has eye ti thrown mord ~ Ott tics,, and oecANtotted more- cat:ooo4.A 00 thc Cott.; tifteitt, than all the RottAttlianary Itukri 01 prance ,who Kett {led u , iorpation (.1 that c. it! y * tiou the diracifacareer of his insatiable. ambit NT7 t r r N A VA W Sp' ,pO7,hI Q .UyEL, FRB . fits IVLijeqtYs *817 7 . H #Qrke„ of . 74 gllps, C , lpt,,iiAlNJEft,,Srl i ti Fr )rhOund Sloop of VCrtir, .C3pt. aitEENE, 7- • Went up ~the harbour to refit the Espieja Sloop,. . . of War and 11 eazle Schooner. r • Catiie down the harbour, and anchored •in the • Sound, the' Pheasant Sloop of War, Capt. PALMER. ' Arrived the Portuguese' Ship Conde cle Penic . , frail London, lade n ;with cocoa, ljnens, ; to Cortintia : she proceeded off the latter port ; h being.viarned by pn English Frigate that the . plac *as in possession of the Enemy, she proceeded this port . Sailed the Amethyst Frigate, Captain - SEYMOUR; and Shannon tsrigate, Capt. Baaxe, to the West. Pp RTSMOUTII, Frt. 8.-- --Arrived his Mtje , ty's Ships Castor and Dolphin, with thePersevertuice, Nottingham, Baring, Lord Duncan, Carnatie, 'and' Lady Castlereagh East "Indianten, and a Fleet of other outward4bound Vessels, under convoy front the Downs. • His Majesty's Ship Hinder has pasifNi by with a 'Convoy to t be Wet word. Majesty's Ship Scorpion is. appointed C)tivoy to the Westward. Sailed his Majesty's Ships Kirious and Undaunti.l on a FAL MOI/Tll, FEB. 6.—Put back by contrary winds, after being out a fortnight, the Priniess duiusta Packet, with !Mails tor jarnaum, with bar sails split. RACE I.lt , SICILY. The following is a correct List of our floc Army , in Sicily : Messina, actit Isiov..tBo3, 20th Light Dragoons, fonr, troop Np.,. }IA WK Lit Royal Artillery, Lieutcnant-Coloitel Lemn't N E . loth loot, ist Battahon, I% , ltjqr CASJULL. 21st, Ditto, Lieuretiant-t:olonel AJiAM. with (i.;(!), W Alt it t N 35th Ditto, ditto, PET 44th Ditto, ' ditto, - fißooKr. stink Ditto, ditto, B UCK Is I 61(.1 Di to. ditto, Colonel IL. to— Erst Ditto, ditto, Lieut.. Col . M'Kzx z r Grenadizr Battalion, A N . ,A 1.1: 1((t. 11016111C,it o; W. l l . l(lVitie •—•-•-••-•-••••-• kegiinent of 1)1114a, .11-lajor R Nnu. ChasseurS Rriranniques,.,• u ti k, Regiment of 4011, ,s,, N , 4 , 4 g a 'Opel owngers, Royal ltesitnent of Malta, Si rj. D , ,LA MrLS« • 2(1 LiAlt/ I t'antry 1101.411441, ----- VI 5CitF. (t LikeWl.t a large detaeitinent, at Artillery And rout /34112. lions of the lSnig's Gellll3ll Legion. StTtninr..--=-A Gentle Man of the name of W3rv, who ohcopied apart ineo;s at the hous. , of Mrs. Mal loy, in Oxitirthqreet," was let iota his apartmen'ts at two o'clock yesterday morniii,_ and he appeared to he in av. ;id mate ()roiled. In ten .tninutes !titer Mr. W. hail re.ired so hlsbed 7 roin, the ()rinse was alarm rd by the report of a. pktol, (m bursting open the d oor of the :odger, a sp,ql.lc;i2 it.;elt 1.6 0 Sheieking, to relate, he having Mown his head to atoms. The deceased, who had , only been thcee weeks in London from the Indies, 'teas stylposed to h ave i n,,t ti‘ jib diSappointments at play. He Wai about jo, of a respec;abie faMily ittalland. Three nieo have been hrOugh t before Mr. GRAHAM, by Anthony, from near Paid, charged with uttering forged Bank-notes. "They are al) 'carmen, arid their defence Is, that they were•drilwii(!; their gether along the road, and picked Op a tin-boc which ,containedlerged note's to the amount of 1601. On Thursday morning, bet wt-eo seven, and eight o'clock, the . passage-boat which. plies upon the Sc. vern, at Newnharu, was swamped and sunk,' when Mt.. Hewlett, of Frampton, and the t%to hoat.- men,' were drowned, in view of several spethitoys On both sides of the river, who, although they in stantly pm off in another boat, 'were not in time to render them any as , istance. They had' gtille over to the opposite thore in the small boat, an& were returning to Newithain to avoid the flood, when they were tmexpeeiedly. overtaken by the bore, or head' of the tide, which set in' with un paralleled height and rapidity, and, Were suddenly engulphed in the tremendous deluge, whilst pite oust), imploring assistance from the shore. When they saw that they, could not escape" the tide, they jet.heiously placed the boat end on but such wai the overwhelming power of the torrent, that their foebie bark was incaNtble of resisting its awful torso, One. of the boatmen, Thomas Knight (who' been a faithfill and cautious servant at that ferry for 143 years), has left a family of seven Children 5 tier other, Thomas &eke,' has leftithree small chthifen and . c,..0 4of them a pr egnant w id ow, in such circum stanOsiof itistre,s as to render them great objeas of charity. Mr. Hewlett bad been married but a few weeks. A fine female child, to all appearance three• mohths old, was found 'carefully 'wrapped up in 3 baßket, atici tied to the knoclter of a house in Mary-le-bone,- New Road,' on .Tuoiday niot, at ten 'o'clock,—:—The infant was discovered by one of the servants, and, froni its dressuwas sup posed to belong to a person far Iron) needy to circum stances. unnatural parent rountin% undiscever ed„ and the infant retrains in the hoijse; Oil Friday last, about seven o'cocli. in the pven ing, a Contet, or blazing .stark, appearvd titc.bori.., zest it took -its courae nearly to the and cOntinnett about the space of one hoar, fifty-six minutes, twelve 'seconds. IN -colour, at the time it was s,2en, was of a light red, and appeared as a s t ar of the 'firit magnitude., As the -o')lereatiens of"it. Were t'ittor intertipted by ittbick. (1,414, winch p re _ vtented itt; Igeing seen, there is no doubt <if clouds interpose not) the cornet may be seen till the ist of IVlarch„ . (8 pethapq. Jo N er. Thi s was Ivett 0113 , , op at Sutton on the Forest, near Yo .k,—Sottott 4. t F6req - liel4 due North of that city, and'is nearly he 4 deg. 10 toil). l'slorth latitudv;,